Last Monday, I flagged Chief Judge Lamberth's important new decision in a Guantánamo habeas case--Barre v. Obama--in which, among other things, he excoriated the government for how long it has taken them...

The quotation is apparently too sexy to resist---too sexy even to Google its speaker's name before running with it. A single Google search would, after all, yield this article by Stuart Taylor Jr. in Nat...

Wells blogged previously about the efforts of various media groups and the ACLU to seek mandamus review before the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), challenging the scope of the protective orde...

In case you missed it: on March 15, attorneys for the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg filed this FOIA action against the Department of Defense (h/t Legal Times).  Rosenberg's complaint begins as follows: 1.

As Jack mentioned, Dan Klaidman of the Daily Beast reported today that “the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Over at Fo...

Filed March 14th in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii: a criminal complaint against a civilian defense contractor, Benjamin Bishop, for unlawfully leaking national security secrets to his girlfriend.  Th...

This could be a very big deal... Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a 24-page opinion striking down 18 U.S.C.

Wednesday on the Senate floor, three senators spoke about the Obama administration's decision to prosecute, in a federal court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Re...

Pretty big decision by the D.C. Circuit this morning, reversing the district court's dismissal of the ACLU's drone-related FOIA suit against the CIA on the ground that the Agency's "Glomar response" was ...

As Ritika notes below, the United States has captured a senior al Qaeda figure (Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden), and will be bringing him to the United States for prosecut...

Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ...